# Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models

**Published:** November 6, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/thinking-machines-inkling-2-small-claims-top-spot-among-western-open-wei

Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI

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